Guadalupana wrote: I thought it was on the 12th of december
Pffft!! What would you know?!... it's not like YOUR name is......... uh.. nevermind
Pffft! FYI no solo en el foro! ugh!
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Our Lady of Guadalupe, is Mexican in origin and continental in the devotion she arouses. We choose her as the first of native madonnas. Here Our Lady was pictured for the first time with the features of the new American, not Indian, but mestizo, the mixed race which would form the backbone of the new world in the Spanish plan of colonization.The story of the apparition of Our Lady to a Christian Indian, Juan Diego, in Tepeyac, in the environs of Mexico City, in 1591, is too well known to need retelling here. Suffice for us to recall that the picture as it is treasured today is the imprint which Our Lady herself left on the blanket of the Indian.
Tepeyac has been referred to as the Lourdes of America. The authenticity of the tradition, the age and pigments of the picture, etc. are details which do not concern us, but we may say in passing that here as in Lourdes the enemies of religion have tried in vain to prove that it is a fraud. The rapid spread of devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe was phenomenal. Everywhere the "little dark Virgin" became a favorite. Churches were built carrying her name; shrines, statues, medals all attesting to favors received through her intercession. Enterprises were undertaken in her name, as in Spain in the name of St. James. Penetration into our Southwest was under her patronage. The rallying cry of the Mexican War of Independence was "for Our Lady of Guadalupe" and her banners were carried by every regiment.
The popularity of Our Lady of Guadalupe is due to the tradition of the apparitions rather than to her Indo- Spanish cast of features. It is one of the notable facts of Marian devotion that native madonnas have never displaced the traditional European images. They exist side by side and there has never been any rivalry between them. Under whatever title or in whatever dress, Our Lady was the same queen, patroness, mediatrix to all Spanish, Indian, Mestizo, Negro. This coexistence of many particular devotions underscores how successfully the missionaries taught, and how truly Catholic, without sentimental attachment to any outward expression whatsoever, was the Marian devotion they instilled.
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